Trump-Supporting Lawyers diGenova and Toensing Teamed Up to Dig Up Ukraine Dirt on Biden

[RandySF]

In a bombshell report Sunday morning, Fox News reported that two frequent guests on the right-leaning cable news channel were “working off the books” to help former New York City mayor and current presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani dig up dirt on President Donald Trump’s leading Democratic opponent—and that the only person who knew about their involvement was the president himself.

Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace broke the news that Giuliani wasn’t acting alone when it came to digging up Ukrainian dirt on Trump’s potential 2020 presidential opponent Joe Biden.


“Two high-profile Washington lawyers, Joe diGenova, who’s been a fierce critic of the Democratic investigation, and his wife Victoria Toensing were working with Giuliani to get oppo research on Biden,” Wallace said at the top of his broadcast.

“According to a top U.S. official, all three were working off the books apart from the administration,” Wallace added. “The only person in government who knows what they were doing is President Trump.”

Giuliani has denied working with any other attorneys in his quest for Ukrainian-provided information on the Biden family in recent appearances on Fox News, denials that the network’s own reporting now call into question.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-digenova-and-victoria-toensing-worked-with-rudy-giuliani-to-dig-up-ukraine-dirt-on-joe-biden-report

[DURHAM D]

1. Did Trump find a way to use taxpayer money to pay those

grifters? Asking for a friend.

[exboyfil]

2. Probably campaign money

[C_U_L8R]

3. Then they're in really deep shit

Actually, no matter how you slice it they're in deep shit.

[DURHAM D]

4. iows - Russia is paying them. nt

[ritapria]

5. He's doing the same thing on China

[ffr]

6. Lawyers diGenova and Toensing Teamed, as Rod Roddy would say,

Come on down! You're the next two Republicans administration officials to be deposed in tRump's Ukraine extortion scandal!!!

[dem4decades]

7. I doubt they can claim attorney client privilege. But if they do

Could that put them all in further legal jeopardy?

I hope so.

[DURHAM D]

8. I understand they also represent Eric Prince.

Also -

Link to tweet

[OliverQ]

9. Why are so many lawyers being allowed to violate their ethics laws?

Every lawyer involved in covering up this scandal should be disbarred.

[Backseat Driver]

10. Previous, 2018, report that:

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/25/the-biggest-trump-fail-yet-as-fox-news-conspiracy-theorist-wont-be-his-lawyer.html

SUN, MAR 25TH, 2018 BY JASON EASLEY
Biggest Trump Fail Yet As Fox Conspiracy Theorist Won’t Be His Lawyer

Trump had to backtrack on his Joe DiGenova and his wife to represent him because no one checked for potential conflicts of interest before Trump announced the hirings.

[snip]

“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning. “However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”

Saying that Trump decided not to hire them is cute, but wrong.

Trump couldn’t DiGenova and his wife because they are already representing other people involved in the investigation.
It is easy to laugh at Trump’s failures, but beneath the failure is a more ominous pattern of behavior. Trump makes decisions without getting information or thinking questions through. He is impulsive, and everything is a kneejerk reaction based on his mood.

A president who doesn’t do the proper due diligence before hiring a lawyer will also not do the work needed before imposing a tariff or launching military action against a foreign country. [snip]